by Nathan Smith | Jul 20, 2016 | Biology, J.William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, Mexico, Study Abroad
During 35 days of study abroad in Puebla, Mexico, Honors College Fellow and pre-med biology major Garrett Bethel observed numerous surgeries, everything from childbirth to gunshot trauma repair. In the middle of one procedure, Garrett recalls that the surgeon, Dr....
by Nathan Smith | Jul 14, 2016 | Honors College Study Abroad Grant, International Business/Marketing, Sam M. Walton College of Business, Spain, Study Abroad
Honors international business major Kassandra Salazar learned a lot in her six weeks abroad, from the finer points of Castellano Spanish to the importance of comfortable walking shoes. Adjusting to the Spanish sense of time was an ongoing source of culture...
by Nathan Smith | Sep 15, 2015 | J.William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, Physics, Study Abroad, Vietnam
Honors physics student Colleen Kretzer was one of the first students to participate in the new Global Community Development in Vietnam program. There, she helped to install two biogas systems that provide cheap, renewable fuel for families, and learned to love the...
by Nathan Smith | Sep 8, 2015 | 5 Questions, Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food, and Life Sciences, Honors thesis, Horticulture, Internships
Olivia Caillouet, an honors horticulture junior from Little Rock, believes that “there’s only so much you can learn in a textbook – you have to get out and complete it with hand’s on learning.” She’s gotten her hands deep in the soil—and into beehives—through a series...
by Nathan Smith | Nov 4, 2014 | 5 Questions, Research
What keeps Professor Steve Boss up at night? In two words: climate change, which he says is “accelerating … the whole system is out of whack, and it’s changing in ways we can’t predict.” Boss is actually doing something in response to this environmental...
